
A Glimpse Into Other Worlds: New & Daring Speculative Fiction
In Allison King’s The Phoenix Pencil Company: A Novel, a hidden magic – the ability to reforge pencils and revive the memories they contain –

Read With Jenna Book Club Picks – Fiction
In Emma Knight’s The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus, Pen arrives at the University of Edinburgh and is drawn into the orbit of a

Grief & Memory: New Fiction
In Jesse Browner’s Sing to Me: A Novel, young, resourceful Hani sets out for the ruins of Troy after his father and sister vanish. With

Teens Read The 2025 National Book Awards – All Genres
The 2025 National Book Award-honored authors in young people’s literature – including María Dolores Águila, K. Ancrum, Daniel Nayeri, Hannah V. Sawyerr, Maria van Lieshout,

The Threads Of Fate: Middle Grade Fantasy
Learn how Jax Freeman juggles the spirit summoner tournament with secret side quests from the elders in Jax Freeman and the Tournament of Spirits by

Surviving Dystopia – Young Adult Fiction & Poetry
In Last Chance Live! by Helena Haywoode Henry, a teenage girl on death row competes on a reality show and must decide what forgiveness, family,

Frayed Family Bonds & Redefining Humanity – Fiction & Nonfiction
In Exit Wounds: A Story of Love, Loss, and Occasional Wars, Peter Godwin longs for his childhood in Zimbabwe, where he was born and where

Demons, Chaos & Rebellions: New Romantasy
In Jaysea Lynn’s For Whom the Belle Tolls, Lily enters the Afterlife on her own terms and finds it more magical than she imagined. From

Secrets, Lies & Things Lost In Translation – Fiction
In Deeper than the Ocean: A Novel, Mirta Ojito tells a multigenerational tale that spins out of a chance finding. While on the Canary Islands,

Deadly Ever After: Dark Romantic Fantasy – Fiction
In Kalynn Bayron’s Frankenstein-tinged horror romance, Make Me A Monster, a newly certified mortician’s assistant at her parents’ funeral home discovers that the family business

Badiucao & Melissa Chan On You Must Take Part In Revolution – Fiction
You Must Take Part in Revolution: A Graphic Novel by Badiucao and Melissa Chan is a near-future dystopian tale exploring technology, authoritarianism, and the fight

Exploring Moral Responsibility In Sci-Fi & Dystopia – Fiction
Alex Foster’s Circular Motion is a story of love, despair, and two people’s search for belonging in a world literally spinning out of control. Tanner